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title: “But is not it very sinful of you, going to church to pray to God, a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But is not it very sinful of you, going to church to pray to God, and then invoking the Unholy Spirit? Who acts: Gossip. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 13

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“But is not it very sinful of you, going to church to pray to God, and then invoking the Unholy Spirit?

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**Who acts:** Gossip · **What happens:** not be, go, pray, invoke · **To what, where:** church, God, Unholy Spirit

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gossip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:5:14
# text = “But is not it very sinful of you, going to church to pray to God, and then invoking the Unholy Spirit?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sinful	sinful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	invoking	invoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Unholy	unholy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Gossip |  |  |  |  | of you; sinful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | Gossip *not said here* | church |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Gossip *not said here* |  | God |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **invoke** *in a quote* | gerund | Gossip *not said here* | the Unholy Spirit |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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